Sexual harassment and those directly affected have the often-specious
appearance. It springs into mind what kind of person would purported sexual
harassment at workplace. No one is prepared to put up with sexual harassment
willingly and let the offender get away with it.
Media coverage helped a great deal fighting off impunity but society turns
a blind eye for those less privilege and so sexuality gets the blame instead.
Sexual harassment bears on a set of conducts as intruding as sexually ungainly.
As sexual harassment differs entirely from affective relation mannerisms and
friendship give away signs or even if making a pass. All to do with absence
of reciprocity. In this sense, dating or a gesture of affection may turn out
to be sexual harassment if not taken mildly be the other part.
As a matter of boundaries within seeing someone and harassing sexually comes
in subtle guises, given that machismo disguised itself in confront to feminism.
Slowly but surely, women get their merited place under the sun of all out sexuality,
being no longer names like provocative called. When there's stubbornness on
an attitude laced with intimacy unwillingly by the other, a typical framework
of sexual harassment renders finger pointing a lot easier for the sake of awareness.
Therein lies a power-freak-like relation. Unfortunately, women, by and large,
still suffer the most from this sort of harass, as if thinking they are to blame
for arousing this sort of attitude in the harasser. Otherwise, the opposite
is also true; men may take the stick as well, however in a much smaller scale.
For sexual harassment to take place there should have strong pressure upon the
victim, for she/he needs to accomplish a sexual deed since lower ranked hierarchically
than the offender does. The one who harass sexually features strong give away
clues, as something may not be so well healthy-wise or emotionally. There might
be some sort of victimized person suffering semblances of a trauma, lack of
boundaries, absolute power, and mental health among others.
In case of sexual harassment, the first step would be pressing charges but
victims in their vast majority don't feel up to it as ashamed or by plain shyness.
Most of all, the threat of job-loss cast a shadow of impunity as bribery subjects
those under harassment to more mischief of the sexual kind.
So, feeding on the abuser undermines the victim as sex innuendoes can go a
long way towards hurting people's feeling whether sexually or else. The offender
gets away feeling even stronger by seeing another victim cornered and defenseless.
Furthermore, the victim is bound to suffer from serious psychological rebound
like catholic guilt-kicks, depression, problems of sexual and intimate
nature, phobias and even suicidal tendencies, which is agro enough as it is.
Nonetheless, there are treatments likely to aid a great deal anyone dealing
with sexual harassment, and the first step is to make sure the victim
doesn't take on board guilt.
Adriana Sommer
Psychologist | 
